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Is the Vertebral Posterior Line a Safety Landmark for Cervical Posterior Screw Insertion? – Radiological Study of the Vertebral Artery in the Cervical Spine

At posterior cervical fixation, iatrogenic injury of the vertebral artery (VA) must be avoided. As the VA is usually located in front of the posterior line of the vertebral body, intraoperative lateral fluoroscopy is used to identify the line. We investigated in how many of 105 patients (210 VAs) th...

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Autores principales: KIM, Kyongsong, NARIAI, Michinori, KAWAUCHI, Masaaki, MORIMOTO, Daijiro, IWAMOTO, Naotaka, ISU, Toyohiko, MORITA, Akio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japan Neurosurgical Society 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7174243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32132344
http://dx.doi.org/10.2176/nmc.oa.2019-0244